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"This bazaar is interesting." Biff said as he and Nancy walked around, looking for Joe and Bess.
"I'm glad I got this new bag." Nancy said as they stopped walking.
"I don't get why you bought it." Biff complained.
"Don't worry Biff, I bought it to keep the necklace safe." Nancy reassured him.
"There is still no sing of Bess or Joe. I'd thought for sure we'd find them here." Biff said as they started walking again, as three masked people jumped out of nowhere at them. "Look out, Nancy!!"
Nancy and Biff moved together so they stood back to back with each other as the three masked men stood around them.
"Hey what's the big idea here?" Biff demanded, but got no answer.
"Let's just get out of here, Biff." Nancy said as they tried to run but didn't get far.
"Looks like we have to fight our way out." Biff said as they got ready to fight.
They fought and Nancy grabbed a stick and managed to break the stick one of them held, after a pause the cloaked figure flipped the stick around the un-damaged end and it opens to release a purple colored gas at Nancy.
"That's the cheapest per fume I ever..." Nancy said as she started to fall asleep.
"Nancy!!" Biff exclaimed as he caught her before Nancy hit the ground but started to succumb to the gas as well.
Biff sits down and groggily looks back up as he hears someone laugh as one of the thugs takes the bag the ankh necklace is in from Nancy before passing out. Later that night Ali Mukhtab lights some leaves from a plant on fire before blowing it out, and a smell comes off it and he holds it under Nancy and Biff's noses and they start to come around.
"Oh my head." Nancy said as she puts a hand to her head.
"Oh, my... Oh hello Mukhtab." Biff said as he looked up.
"Were are we?" Nancy asked as she looked around them.
"We're atop the great pyramid of Khufu. You will be safe here." Ali Mukhtab said.
"Even so, we still have a big problem." Biff said.
"Such as losing your friends." Ali Mukhtab said with his back to them.
"Bess and Joe. Do you know were they are?" Nancy asked him.
"I have a friend who is, shall we say, looking into it. Ah, here he comes now." Ali Mukhtab said as he held out his hand and the hawk drops something into it and perches on his arm.
"Bess's necklace!!" Nancy exclaimed as she recognized the necklace.
"So they did make it out of the tomb." Biff said relieved.
"Excellent work, Apollo. Now, tell me, where did you find this?" Ali Mukhtab said to the hawk on his arm which took off before looking back at Nancy and Biff saying "We must travel north, by the stars."
Mean while back at the sphinx Abigail, wearing the necklace, stood with Tim and Maria.
"Nothing can stop me now; soon Cleopatra's golden crown will be mine!!" Abigail said as she laughed, then she looked at Tim and Maria and they just stared at her.
"Oh please, you'll get your cut. Now get down there and find what we came for." Abigail said realizing what they were thinking, as they went back into the tomb.
"Wow this looks like a sports arena and it's a full house." Joe said as they sat on the chairs that there carried inside.
"You're right Joe, but I wonder why we are here." Bess said, as the chairs were put down so they could get off.
"Me too." Joe agreed, as they walked over to the two chairs that were already there.
"Loyal subjects of the lost city, you have chosen to follow me in the ways of ancient times!! But now as foretold in the prophecy the Pharaoh Abbesses has returned!!" Poseidon exclaimed from were he stands in a balcony as the people cheer.
Two of the citizens of the lost city hand Joe and Bess each a shield and spear, unsure of why they were given to them.
"I wonder why they are giving these to us." Bess said as they took them.
"I don't know and I'm not liking it one bit." Joe said with a frown.
"And now, it's time for the Great Abbesses to fulfill the prophecy by making a sacrifice of herself to the all-powerful spirit of the sand!!" Poseidon said as he waved a hand toward a set of huge doors.
"Please tell me he did not just say what I think he just said." Bess said fearfully.
"I can't because he just did, Bess." Joe said softly as the sand spirit was released.
"I'm scared." Bess whispered.
"Me too." Joe replied, looking worried.
"Oh dear." Bess said as the spirit of the sand appears before them as a giant scorpion.
"Come on!! Follow me!!" Joe said as he grabbed Bess's arm and they run from the scorpion.
Joe and Bess jump on to its tail to get out of the way and it flings them off, they land on top of an obelisk. The scorpion knocks it down and it crashes into another, which causes a domino affect and Joe and Bess jump form one obelisk to another before landing in a pile of hay in the stable. They come out on a chariot and the giant scorpion cases them and they go up a ramp made by a broken obelisk. The pins that keep the horses on the chariot come lose and the horses go in different directions as the chariot keeps going straight. It flies through the air and comes crashing down outside the stadium as the scorpion follows them out. The chariot Joe and Bess are still in then starts to fall apart and they run and trick the scorpion. They do a snake charmer act to get away but the scorpion realizes the trick and heads straight for them, and Joe and Bess move out of the way and it crashes through the wall that was behind them. The scorpion lands in the water and you can see sparks coming off it, as everyone gathers around, shocked.
"No, citizens!! Do not be alarmed by what you see!!" Poseidon said as he spreads his arms out and a little box comes flying out of his sleeve, that Joe catches.
"Would you look at that? The sand spirit was just a remote controlled monster run by Poseidon." Joe said as the citizens of the lost city gather around him angrily.
"That man is not Poseidon!!" Ali Mukhtab said as he, Biff, and Nancy, ride in on camels.
"Bess!! You're alright!" Nancy said as she and Biff got off the camels they were riding.
"Don't worry Nancy, we're fine." Bess said as she looked back at them.
"He is Adam Sanders, a brilliant civil engineer, who has been illegally damming the Nile River." Mukhtab said as he held up a wanted poster with a glare at Adam.
"That's how we must have gotten here. He must have stolen the water from the Nile to bring it into the city." Joe said as he knelt by the water as he and Bess, who was standing not far from him, as the looked at the water.
"And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you phony pharaohs." Adam said before he was led away by the people of the lost city.
"I don't get why Joe and I just so happen to fit the profile for the prophecy." Bess said as she looked at the wall were that prophecy was written.
"Maybe it was just dumb luck?" Joe suggested as he looked at it himself.
"There is no such thing as dumb luck, my friend; I believe that fate brought you here for a special purpose." Ali Mukhtab said.
"Really?" Bess asked as she tried to imagine the reason.
"Hey, where is my brother?" Joe asked as he just noticed that Frank was not there, as Nancy and Biff trade uneasy glances.
A little while late they sit on some stairs; Nancy and Biff have just finished telling Joe and Bess what has taken places since they had been separated. Now they try to figure everything out.
"It doesn't add up. If the Nile ran dry because of Poseidon's scheme, could the curse of Cleopatra be a hoax as well?" Biff asked.
"It's not fair, why does my brother get turned to stone while we are enjoying ourselves." Joe said angrily.
"Except for the giant scorpion chasing us around part." Bess added.
"Here, Bess, I think this belongs to you." Nancy said as she sat next to her and held out her necklace.
"My necklace!! I wondered were it disappeared too." Bess said and she took from Nancy and put it back on.
"OH NO!! The ankh necklace. It was in my new bag. Where is it?" Nancy exclaimed as she got to her feet.
"I'm afraid the thieves who attacked you, did not go away empty handed." Ali Mukhtab said as he walked down the stairs to where they were standing.
"Then they must have known what they were stealing." Biff said
"Abigail Van Derrick. She knew we had it and that it was the key to the curse." Nancy said.
"If she has it then we'll never be able to turn Frank, Richard, and Rachel back. Oh I'm sorry Joe." Bess said realizing what she had just said.
"Its okay, Bess. I've got a plan." Joe said with a grin.
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SB/Kierra: That's longer than the last chapter.
Annie: Kierra... (Says warningly)
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